HIST 1920 - Modern China

(crosslisted) ASIAN 1192, CAPS 1920
(GB) (HA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Y. Du.

This course surveys modern Chinese history from 1644 to 1949. Time will be devoted to each of the three major periods: China’s last empire, the Great Qing (1644-1911); the early Republic (1912-1927); and the Nationalist period (1928-1949). It guides students through pivotal events in modern Chinese history, and uncovers the origins and trajectory of China’s painful transition from a powerful early modern empire to a country torn by civil unrest and imperialist invasion, and then from a newly-recognized “Great Power” in the post-World War II international order to a vanguard of the global communist revolution. (HNU)